The record
Two segments collected from elsewhere in Brussels in 2021 and put under glass beside the plenary chamber entrance — conservation rather than display.
The cubes are a pair, at the visitor entrance to the European Parliament. Both segments had stood elsewhere in Brussels beforehand and were gathered here in 2021 under a project to protect and preserve them, run jointly by the Belgian state, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parliament. One of them is the element that came from Potsdamer Platz and spent years in Parc Léopold; the other was shown in the exhibition on the Place du Luxembourg for the twentieth anniversary in 2009 and bought by the Belgian state afterwards.
This is the only record in the catalogue where segments have been enclosed expressly to stop them deteriorating. Everywhere else the object stands in the weather as it did in Berlin, and the paint goes the way paint goes. Putting the Wall in a vitrine is a decision about what it has become: not a structure any more but an artefact.
How did it get here?
Assembled in 2021 from other Brussels locations: the Potsdamer Platz element given by the city of Berlin and shown in Parc Léopold from April 2004, and an element from the 2009 Place du Luxembourg exhibition acquired by the Belgian State.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1458.
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
The 2021 installation of two segments in glass cubes at the Parliament's plenary entrance, the conservation project behind it, the Potsdamer Platz / Parc Léopold origin of one of them, and the other's origin in the 2009 Place du Luxembourg exhibition, after which the Belgian state bought it.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall | Visiting | European Parliament ↗
The Parliament's own visitor page: two original segments beside the visitors' entrance to the Hemicycle, the first donated by the city of Berlin from Potsdamer Platz and presented in Leopold Park on 22 April 2004, the second part of the 2009 exhibition on Place du Luxembourg and acquired by the Belgian State afterwards; both relocated here in 2021 under a protection project of the Belgian State, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parliament.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 1458
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